may account for its popularity among moderns,27 but from a perspective of overall unity, it cannot survive comparison with chap. 20. There we have an unambiguous answer in universal terms in God’s words to Abimelech: “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not allow you to touch her. Now therefore restore the man’s wife” (vv. 6–7a). The same circumstances prevailed in A, since Pharaoh, too, acted in ignorant